Lead Software Developer Jobs in England

Lead Software Developer
UK > England

The median Lead Software Developer salary in England is £90,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 665 833 899
Rank change year-on-year +168 +66 -136
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Software Developer 178 96 236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.11% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 167 91 188
10th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £55,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% -8.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £142,500 £110,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £165,000 £122,500 £135,000
UK median annual salary £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -11.76% +21.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,536 84,581 127,040
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.47% 91.51% 96.11%
Number of salaries quoted 60,273 53,585 75,560
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,595 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.01% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,820 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,822 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Lead Software Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Lead Software Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England.

Salary trend for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Lead Software Developer in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Lead Software Developer in England

Lead Software Developer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Software Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +146 64 £142,500 +42.50% 3
South East +51 54 £76,250 +1.67% 4
North of England +72 35 £70,000 - 7
North West +23 23 £70,000 +3.70% 5
East of England +21 10 £60,000 -7.69%
Midlands +8 9 £75,000 +15.38%
West Midlands +31 8 £75,000 +57.07%
Yorkshire +96 6 £60,000 -22.58%
North East - 6 £65,000 - 2
South West -30 5 £72,500 +16.00%
East Midlands -21 1 £65,000 -
Lead Software Developer
UK

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, Lead Software Developer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Lead Software Developer in the job title.

1 122 (68.54%) Agile
2 99 (55.62%) JavaScript
3 90 (50.56%) C#
4 84 (47.19%) Software Engineering
5 82 (46.07%) .NET
6 79 (44.38%) Finance
7 74 (41.57%) AWS
8 73 (41.01%) TypeScript
9 65 (36.52%) Java
10 52 (29.21%) GCP
11 51 (28.65%) Hedge funds
11 51 (28.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 51 (28.65%) Front Office
11 51 (28.65%) Fixed Income
11 51 (28.65%) Equities
11 51 (28.65%) Derivative
11 51 (28.65%) Asset Management
12 47 (26.40%) Banking
13 45 (25.28%) Investment Management
13 45 (25.28%) Python
14 43 (24.16%) Azure
15 41 (23.03%) gRPC
16 40 (22.47%) Apache Airflow
16 40 (22.47%) Amazon Athena
16 40 (22.47%) React
16 40 (22.47%) Pandas
16 40 (22.47%) Mentoring
16 40 (22.47%) SciPy
16 40 (22.47%) NumPy
16 40 (22.47%) Protocol Buffers

Lead Software Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 40 (22.47%) Apache
1 40 (22.47%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.69%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 4 (2.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.57%) AWS
2 52 (29.21%) GCP
3 43 (24.16%) Azure
4 40 (22.47%) dbt
5 36 (20.22%) Snowflake
6 11 (6.18%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.93%) Pulumi
8 4 (2.25%) SaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.69%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
9 3 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.69%) PaaS
9 3 (1.69%) Serverless
10 1 (0.56%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.93%) Network Security
2 6 (3.37%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) HTTP
3 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (22.47%) Amazon Athena
1 40 (22.47%) Apache Arrow
1 40 (22.47%) Apache Ignite
1 40 (22.47%) Dremio
2 36 (20.22%) Data Lake
3 28 (15.73%) NoSQL
4 17 (9.55%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.37%) MySQL
6 3 (1.69%) Couchbase
6 3 (1.69%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.69%) Redis
7 2 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.12%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 19 (10.67%) Visual Studio
2 16 (8.99%) Git
3 7 (3.93%) Jasmine
3 7 (3.93%) NUnit
3 7 (3.93%) Selenium
3 7 (3.93%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (3.93%) TeamCity
3 7 (3.93%) Visual Studio Code
4 6 (3.37%) Jenkins
5 4 (2.25%) Maven
6 3 (1.69%) Gradle
7 1 (0.56%) Appium
7 1 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.56%) GitLab
7 1 (0.56%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 79 (44.38%) Finance
2 51 (28.65%) Front Office
3 47 (26.40%) Banking
4 40 (22.47%) Investment Banking
5 12 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.74%) Social Skills
6 5 (2.81%) Games
6 5 (2.81%) Health Technology
7 4 (2.25%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Social Housing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (46.07%) .NET
2 41 (23.03%) gRPC
3 40 (22.47%) NumPy
3 40 (22.47%) Pandas
3 40 (22.47%) Protocol Buffers
3 40 (22.47%) React
3 40 (22.47%) SciPy
4 20 (11.24%) ASP.NET
5 17 (9.55%) AngularJS
5 17 (9.55%) RESTful
6 15 (8.43%) Vue
7 13 (7.30%) .NET Core
8 12 (6.74%) JSON
9 11 (6.18%) .NET Framework
9 11 (6.18%) ASP.NET Core
9 11 (6.18%) CSS
9 11 (6.18%) Redux
10 9 (5.06%) HTML
11 7 (3.93%) HTML5
11 7 (3.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.65%) Derivative
1 51 (28.65%) Equities
1 51 (28.65%) Fixed Income
1 51 (28.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 51 (28.65%) Hedge funds
2 11 (6.18%) Digital Media
3 7 (3.93%) Client/Server
3 7 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.93%) IoT
4 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (2.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.25%) Virtual Reality
6 2 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.12%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.12%) Mobile Games
6 2 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.18%) Windows
2 6 (3.37%) Linux
3 1 (0.56%) Android
3 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (68.54%) Agile
2 84 (47.19%) Software Engineering
3 51 (28.65%) Asset Management
4 45 (25.28%) Investment Management
5 40 (22.47%) Mentoring
6 37 (20.79%) DevOps
7 36 (20.22%) Line Management
8 28 (15.73%) Computer Science
9 25 (14.04%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (14.04%) Propensity Modelling
10 22 (12.36%) Microservices
11 21 (11.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 20 (11.24%) Multithreading
12 20 (11.24%) Unit Testing
13 18 (10.11%) Fintech
14 17 (9.55%) TDD
15 16 (8.99%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (8.43%) Code Quality
16 15 (8.43%) Test Automation
17 14 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 99 (55.62%) JavaScript
2 90 (50.56%) C#
3 73 (41.01%) TypeScript
4 65 (36.52%) Java
5 45 (25.28%) Python
6 27 (15.17%) SQL
7 19 (10.67%) C
8 12 (6.74%) C++
9 7 (3.93%) Bicep
10 4 (2.25%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.25%) Ruby
10 4 (2.25%) Scala
10 4 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 2 (1.12%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.56%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.56%) PHP
Qualifications
1 28 (15.73%) Degree
2 22 (12.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (5.62%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.12%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.56%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.43%) QA
2 2 (1.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 39 (21.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 39 (21.91%) Kubernetes
2 8 (4.49%) Terraform
3 7 (3.93%) MIIS
4 1 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.56%) Kiali
4 1 (0.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.12%) Oracle